WhetStone releases new ViewWise

WhetStone Technologies (Park City, UT, http://www.viewwise.com

) announced the next generation of its production imaging software. ViewWise (formerly OPEN/image for NetWare) provides support for 32-bit environments and ODMA. In addition to supporting NetWare, HP/UX, Sun Solaris and IBM AIX, the out-of-box production imaging software now includes production OCR capabilities, forms recognition COLD and CD-R storage.

WhetStone has partnered with several leading vendors including the new Eastman Software (Billerica, MA, http://www.eastmansoftware.com), Novell (Park City, UT, http://www.novell.com), and Xerox (Rochester, NY, http://www.xerox.com). WhetStone is the developer of Novell's GroupWise 5 imaging product, in addition to owning Eastman Software's OPEN/image for NetWare.

The company is confident that the recent sale of Wang's software unit to Kodak will only help its business. Randall Walters, WhetStone president, said, "The bottom line is, we have a good deal with Eastman."